Role of Ethnicity on Weight Loss and Attrition After Bariatric Surgery.

King, Rebecca A.; Patel, Kapila C.; Mark, Victoria M.; Shah, Ankit; Laferrère, Blandine

Ethnicity has been shown to affect weight loss outcome and attrition after bariatric surgery. We analyze data from a multiethnic urban cohort of patients (n = 570) followed up to 12 months after either gastric bypass (RYGB) or gastric banding (AGB) surgery. Percent total weight loss was greater at 1 year after RYGB (35%) compared with that of AGB (13%), regardless of ethnicity. Hispanics were more likely to undergo RYGB (77.3% vs. 61.2% of African-Americans and 50.4% of Caucasians). Ethnicity had no effect on attrition after RYGB, but Hispanics had better follow-up rate after AGB. Our data do not support an effect of ethnicity on surgical weight loss at 1 year.

WEIGHT loss; BARIATRIC surgery; ETHNICITY; GASTRIC bypass; GASTRIC banding; CAUCASIAN race

Obesity Surgery, 2019, Vol 29, Issue 11, p3577

0960-8923

Academic Journal

10.1007/s11695-019-04029-6